{"id":2378,"date":"2026-06-10T20:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:38:33","slug":"the-largest-scorpion-to-walk-the-earth-was-the-size-of-a-baseball-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was the size of a baseball bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists revisited fossils at London&#8217;s Natural History Museum that sat misidentified for over a century before recognizing them as scorpion remains.<\/li>\n<li>The creature measured roughly 3 feet long and lived 415 million years ago in what is now Great Britain.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers believe the baseball bat-size scorpion lived an amphibious lifestyle and fed on primitive fish in ancient streams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Imagine a huge scorpion the size of a baseball bat, scrambling over mossy rocks and around large, treelike structures before slipping into a nearby stream.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2364\">FBI seizes over a dozen websites it says were used by Chinese agents to recruit US officials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            That\u2019s how a team of scientists describes what the largest ever known scorpion would have looked like as it prowled its environment roughly 415 million years ago in what\u2019s now Great Britain.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            To arrive at this fascinating new understanding, experts revisited fossils that had been in London\u2019s Natural History Museum for more than 100 years. Piecing together those specimens along with more newly discovered fossils allowed the group to forma more complete picture of an organism that was once thought to be a crustacean, much like lobsters and other shellfish.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Praearcturus gigas  was roughly 1 meter \u2014 a little more than 3 feet \u2014 in length, the scientists estimated in a study published June 2 in the journalPalaeontology.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThat is a chonky-looking organism,\u201d said Russell Bicknell, a paleobiologist and research fellow   at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, who wasn\u2019t involved with the new report. \u201cYou would not want to run into this thing in a dark alley. It would be an absolute beast.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Previous work on the scorpion, first identified in the 1870s, had suggested that it might have been part of a group of crustaceans known as isopods. It wasn\u2019t until the 1980s, as scientists learned more about P. gigas and related animals, however, that the field also began considering itmay have been another type of arthropod, or an invertebrate with an exoskeleton and jointed appendages \u2014 specifically a scorpion.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The head of Bathynomus vaderi.\" class=\"wp-image-2372\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2ac0ae34e14d47b2befa1cfbf3e6eee1.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>The head of Bathynomus vaderi.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Nguyen Thanh Son<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Giant \u2018Darth Vader\u2019 sea bug discovered off the coast of Vietnam<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>4  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The study underscores the importance of revisionary science, said Elizabeth Dowding, chair of paleoenvironmental analysis at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She was not involved in the new research.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHow we think about extinction and evolutionary biology comes from the ability of scientists to work over the same ground, by repetition,\u201d Dowding said. \u201cIt\u2019s just amazing that this story itself is one of revision and consistent curiosity over the same set of rocks. \u2026 It\u2019s demonstrative of the way science works.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Identifying an early giant scorpion\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Working with eight fossils excavated over the years from three sites, the study team used CT scans and other tools to take a closer look at the specimen in the Natural History Museum\u2019s collection. The researchers also worked with an artist to create renderings of what the animal might have looked like in the environment of that time.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The \u201csmoking gun\u201d that the fossilized remains belonged to another species, said lead study author Richard Howard, curator of fossil arthropods at the Natural History Museum, was a study from 2015 that described a scorpion in Canada.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That creature, Eramoscorpius brucensis, had a key feature that, to Howard and his colleagues, was the teller. Its sternum, which is the plate on the underside of the scorpion between the bases of its legs, was long and triangular and had a groove down its middle just like P. gigas\u2019 sternum, Howard said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt\u2019s exactly the same in the two scorpions. So, we can infer from that that these are two closely related animals,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01 prehistoric scorpion\" class=\"wp-image-2373\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/521633e63733726cb63c5cccb8ca9cf6.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Andrew Wendruff<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Prehistoric scorpion is earliest known animal to venture from sea onto land<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>2  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            P. gigas lived in what\u2019s known as the early Devonian Period, when life on Earth was still primarily aquatic. The presence of such a scorpion during that time, therefore, is somewhat of a surprise, according to Howard.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThat\u2019s much older than we would expect to find giant arthropods,\u201d he said. Scorpions and other giant arthropods, including early versions of dragonflies and millipedes, lived some 50 million years later, Howard explained. Jungles and trees during that time created an influx of oxygen that made giant terrestrial life possible, he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But during the early Devonian, when there wasn\u2019t much oxygen, \u201cThe lines between what is a land-living animal and what is an aquatic animal are much more blurred,\u201d Howard said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Apart from its giant size, P. gigaswas a creature whose legs, claws and head were covered in rough bumps, a characteristic trait of scorpions, according to scientists. Although there are no eyes preserved in the museum\u2019s fossil samples, the study authors think that P. gigas, like modern scorpions, also had eyes on the front of its head.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fossil fragment indicates P. gigas likely had roughly 6-inch-long pincers.\" class=\"wp-image-2374\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/92824c010807dcc756a63999cd037a2b.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/92824c010807dcc756a63999cd037a2b.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/92824c010807dcc756a63999cd037a2b-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>A fossil fragment indicates P. gigas likely had roughly 6-inch-long pincers.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Richie Howard\/NHM<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Notably, P. gigas likely had roughly 6-inch-long (16-centimeter) pincers, about the length of a dollar bill. \u201cIt\u2019s like four times the length of a modern, large scorpion,\u201d Flinders University\u2019s Bicknell said. In comparison, the giant forest scorpion, considered the largest modern-day species of scorpion, is usually between 4 and 5 inches (10 and 13 centimeters) in length.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2362\">Eye care experts and editors agree. These are the best eye drops for dry, itchy eyes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The scorpion also seems to have had flaplike structures on its abdomen called lateral epimera. \u201cNo other scorpion has those that we know of,\u201d Howard said. Scientists usually associate those body parts with marine arthropods such as horseshoe crabs. The flaplike features might have helped P. gigas swim, according to Howard.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The new work also allowed the team to classify two other arthropods from the same time period. Those organisms, one of which was also likely a giant scorpion, were not previously thought to be related to P. gigas, but in the current study, the authors suggest that these other species are likely also P. gigas.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Land or sea creature?\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Experts revisited fossils that had been in London\u2019s Natural History Museum for more than 100 years.\" class=\"wp-image-2375\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b52fc9a14df963410e31341796b43919.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b52fc9a14df963410e31341796b43919.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b52fc9a14df963410e31341796b43919-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Experts revisited fossils that had been in London\u2019s Natural History Museum for more than 100 years.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Sam Bond\/NHM<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The authors also considered some of the animal\u2019s behaviors. One theory for why the scorpion got to be so big is to avoid being eaten, as one of the earliest terrestrial beings of its kind, according to the study.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That great size would have also posed a problem as its food sources on land were all tiny creatures such as mites and other much smaller arachnids. \u201cSurely something that\u2019s the size of a dog can\u2019t go around eating all these tiny, tiny things,\u201d Howard said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how it would even catch them.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The team instead hypothesize that P. gigas lived an amphibious lifestyle, feeding on primitive jawless and armored fish that inhabited the waters at that time.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Not everyone is convinced that P. gigasis a scorpion, however. \u201cThe problem I have, and to be fair to the authors, they acknowledge this \u2026 we only have bits and pieces of the original animal,\u201d Jason Dunlop, scientific director of the arachnid, myriapod and stem-group arthropod collection at the Museum of  Natural History (Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde) in Berlin, said in an email to CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some scorpions can shed their tail to escape predators, which leads to permanent constipation.\" class=\"wp-image-2376\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94bb6b51f01623e65987854921d58c70.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Some scorpions can shed their tail to escape predators, which leads to permanent constipation.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Nico Smit\/EyeEm\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Research into the mating habits of constipated scorpions wins an Ig Nobel Prize<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>2  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Two key features of scorpions \u2014 the sting at the end of the tail and comblike sensory organs called pectines on scorpions\u2019 underside \u2014 have not been found, said Dunlop, who was an author on the 2015 paper and a reviewer of the new study. \u201cThings like big pincers might also be seen in some crustaceans,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Howard acknowledges his team was working with an incomplete specimen, but there is no reason to assume the tail wouldn\u2019t have ended in a sting, he said. \u201cIf you discover a dinosaur skeleton and it\u2019s got no head, you don\u2019t assume it didn\u2019t have a head,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            To Dunlop, the skepticism demonstrates how difficult it can be to work with fossils \u2014 specimens are rarely unearthed intact as depicted in popular films such as \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d \u201cReal fossils are often broken, messy and incomplete, and the challenge is then to interpret what we are seeing using the evidence we have available,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jian-type-specimen-at-actual-size-(Hailu-You,-2008)-copy.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2377\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a444d99a29cd0cbfd11c3e7ea4529f92.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Hailu You<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>6  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Revisiting fossils\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            There are several implications of the work. \u201cIt sets the scene for reinvigorating how we think about animals from this time period,\u201d Bicknell said. \u201cI think what we may see over the next five to 10 years might be an increased rate in which new scorpions from this time period are documented.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Revising P. gigas to be a scorpion also has practical implications, according to Dowding.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cBecause of this revision, every single paleobiology database will have to update its information to incorporate this new data,\u201d Dowding said, especially since the authors also used their understanding of P. gigas to shed light on two other organisms.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe ramifications of this work potentially change global understandings of the diversity of this group.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n    Shraddha Chakradhar is a journalist based in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in various outlets including Science, Nieman Journalism Lab, STAT and Nature Medicine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    Sign up for CNN\u2019s Wonder Theory science newsletter. 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